Follow these steps to prepare for a reasoned debate. Debate Issue: the death penalty Step 1: Identify sources of knowledge on this issue. You might want to refer to the brainstorm developed earlier in the workshop. Step 2: Reflect on what you know about this issue and what you have experienced...

The source of these definitions is Dictionary.com With a partner, match the following words and definitions by writing the number of the definition next to the corresponding word. Analysis _____ 1. The science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference. Inquiry _____ 2.

Reprinted with permission from "What Does Spirituality Mean? Young People Speak Out" by Search Institute (R). Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Search Institute (R), Minneapolis, MN; www.search-institute.org. All Rights Reserved.What does spirituality mean?...

Follow these instructions to create your own worry doll. When you are finished, tell your worries or problems to the doll and place it under your pillow overnight. When you wake up you will have slept better and will be more hopeful! 1. Create the doll’s body. You will need small, still materials...

Background — Reginald Zottoli Prayer — words of Norbert CapekResponsive Reading — adaptation of words of Norbert Capek. Used with permission of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association.Flower Festival Prayer: Infinite Spirit of Life, we ask thy blessing on these, thy messengers of...

Make copies of this handout for all leaders and participants. Quote 1: "Just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." — Elie Wiesel (b. 1928), writer, activist and Holocaust survivor Quote 2: "Hope is like a road...

Copy this and give it to participants or write it on newsprint and post. Moment Task Lectio Slowly read and re-read the text. Pay attention to each individual word and what it means and what the whole sentence or phrase means....

We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote The inherent worth and dignity of every person; Justice, equity and compassion in human relations; Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations; A free an...

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. — 1 John 4:7-8 One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"...

Use these questions, along with the questions the group brainstorms, as a guide for interviewing an elder in your congregation. Remember that this is an exercise in listening. You may audio or video record the interview, or write notes on paper. 1. What is your name? Where do you live? 2. What is...

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Adapted from an essay, Learning Types and their Needs. In Essex Conversations: Vision for Lifespan Religious Education, ed. The Essex Conversations Coordinating Committee (Boston: Skinner House. 94-5). First Task: Learn basic Unitarian Universalist religious skills; learn how we Unitarian...

Page 1 Stages of Faith Development Pre-Stage: Undifferentiated Faith Generally children from birth through about 2 years of age. Have the potential for faith but lack the ability to act on that potential....

This responsive reading is based on James Luther Adams' essay "Guiding Principles for a Free Faith" in On Becoming Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society, Max Stackhouse, ed. Beacon Press, 1976, pp. 12-20. Leaders read the regular text, and participants read the italicized text.

Please complete the evaluation form and return it to a workshop leader. My favorite part of Exploring Our Values through Poetry was ... My least favorite part of Exploring Our Values through Poetry was ... I wish we had more time to ... Something that would have made this program better is ......

During the final workshop of this program, your leaders will ask you to reflect on your Poetry Slam experience. This handout will get your thinking started about what you might write at that time; you do not need to do the assignment until then....

When you get to the top of the mountain Pull the next one up. Then there’ll be two of you Roped together at the waist Tired and proud, knowing the mountain, Knowing the human force it took To bring both of you there. And when the second one has finished taking in the view, Satisfied by the heat...

From The Complete Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 2003). Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring From wide, uneven orbits; one brow drooping Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment still inhering, Skin deep, as a foolish record of old-world fighting. Crookedly broken nose — low...

by Patrice Vecchione, from Faith and Doubt (New York: Henry Holt, 2007)Just what can be found with eyes open? $10,000 in coins, anyway. Enough to fill a few five-gallon jugs....

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)This is an excerpt from the poem "Ancient Sage" Thou canst not prove the Nameless, O my son, Nor canst thou prove the world thou movest in, Thou canst not prove that thou art body alone, Nor canst thou prove that thou art spirit alone, Nor canst thou prove that th...